Arab Museum of Modern Art
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The first institution of its kind in the region, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar
offers an Arab perspective on modern and contemporary art and supports creativity, promotes dialogue and inspires new ideas.
The 5,500-square-meter (59,000-square-foot) Museum, located in a former school building in Doha’s Education City, has a collection that offers a rare comprehensive overview of modern Arab art, representing the major trends and sites of production spanning the 1840s through the present. Mathaf presents exhibitions that situate the Arab world in relation to a larger art context and also offers programs that engage the local and international community, encourage research and scholarship and contribute to the cultural landscape of the Gulf region, the Middle East, the Arab Diaspora and beyond.
Mathaf opened on 30 December 2010 with an exhibition called Sajjil, which means "act of recording" in Arabic and featured a cross section of Arab art over the previous 100 years. Simultaneously the museum hosted Interventions (an exhibition of new commissions by five pivotal modernist Arab artists: Dia Azzawi, Farid Belkahia, Ahmed Nawar, Ibrahim el-Salahi, and Hassan Sharif) and Told/Untold/Retold (an ambitious exhibition of new commissions by twenty-three contemporary Arab artists).
Mathaf is closed during November while the museum prepares for its upcoming exhibition, Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab, which opens on 5th December at with an explosion event that is free and open to the public.
Qatar
Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...
offers an Arab perspective on modern and contemporary art and supports creativity, promotes dialogue and inspires new ideas.
The 5,500-square-meter (59,000-square-foot) Museum, located in a former school building in Doha’s Education City, has a collection that offers a rare comprehensive overview of modern Arab art, representing the major trends and sites of production spanning the 1840s through the present. Mathaf presents exhibitions that situate the Arab world in relation to a larger art context and also offers programs that engage the local and international community, encourage research and scholarship and contribute to the cultural landscape of the Gulf region, the Middle East, the Arab Diaspora and beyond.
Mathaf opened on 30 December 2010 with an exhibition called Sajjil, which means "act of recording" in Arabic and featured a cross section of Arab art over the previous 100 years. Simultaneously the museum hosted Interventions (an exhibition of new commissions by five pivotal modernist Arab artists: Dia Azzawi, Farid Belkahia, Ahmed Nawar, Ibrahim el-Salahi, and Hassan Sharif) and Told/Untold/Retold (an ambitious exhibition of new commissions by twenty-three contemporary Arab artists).
Mathaf is closed during November while the museum prepares for its upcoming exhibition, Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab, which opens on 5th December at with an explosion event that is free and open to the public.